The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-01-27

lteN. Df Lew DrduSOH Opellto Tue SIS
sion with prayer.
Bills Introduced.
Ey exempt tiremcn IN Wilmington from
pol faN-
70 repeal the stock law for Granville
county.
To annex part of Duplin 10 Sampson
county.
To amend the charter of the South At
Iautlc Il Northwestern Railroad
To abolish July term of Wayne Superior
Court
Relative to the public schools of Durham
10 incorporate the town Of Harden,
Castor county
To incorporate the bank Of Fayetteville
For the protection Of deer in New Han
over, Bladen, Brunswick and Pender.
70 amend the Code in regard to the at
tachm"ntS.
To declare Neuse precinct, Lenoir coun-
ty. township
To repeal section SO! OF the Code.
The c. r. ~ w. Railroad.
The House took up, as the unfinished
business the bill introduced by Mr.. SuttOn)
to grant the Cape Fear Y Iadkln Valley
Railway an extension OF time for the com
pletion Of that road to Mt. Airy and Pat
terSon for the reason that the State, which
contracted 10 luFnlSn bUU cOuN lclS, I1du uOt
furnished over ! 80.
Mr. Sutton spoke in favor of the bill and
spoke OF the road the greatest of the
l.>tinctvely State roads.
Mr. Fries said that he objected to the
bill because it gave the road convict labor
for hing. Other parts of the State paid
for the road, in furnishing cOnvics. He
thought the State should get pay for all
such labor furnished He said that there
are only S5f conyicts, in all now available
for railway work He wished to know if
the act of 1888 was a contract, and had
found that it was up to 1887! tie yet
thought the bill unjust to the taxpayers
ana to the state He offered an amend
ment to make the number of convicts to
b. furnished the road 400 able bodied men
for four years. In case the penltentiary
could not furnish that many men, the
time TO be extended; but if more than that
Uumber be furnished the time to be short
eued Mr. Fries stated that at present 3S4
c0nyicts were actually at work on the road.
Mr. Evarts offered an amendment to
MIR Fries amendment, to make the num-
ber Of convicts 250. He declared his will
huguess to allow that number, but was
opposed to allowing 400, or over half the
entire available force. He said the State
did not receive q cent of pay; the labor OF
Mr. Ieazar offered the following as a
substitute for the entire bill:
See t. That all bonds deposited with
the state Treasurer by the Cape Fear x
ladkn Valley Railway Company under
the requirements and provisions of the act
ratified February 21th, 1888, be retU.n"d
10 the said Company; but the bonds re
ceiyed for convict labor done previous to
February 21th, 1888, shall be returned to
the Company when they shall complete to
Patterson.
See. 2 That the Cape Fear & Yadkin
Valley Railway Company shall be released
from responsibility as to the time OF COM
pletion specified IN the act above referred
to, and the Board of Directors of the Pen
itentiary shall furnish convicts to said
Company, to be employed iii the compile
ton of their lines to Mt. Airy and Patter-
son, not to exceed 40) in number; and that
this convict labor is to be-paid for by said
Company in good and lawful money at the
rate of $125 per head per annum, pay
ments to be made quarterly.
Mr.. Leazer then spoke in favor Of his
amendment Elsewhere we publish his
Speech-or rather the glst Of lt--EEITOR
Mr.. Holt said that the arrangement be
tween the State and the road in regard tc
furnishing convcts-a certain, fixed mum
ber Of cOnvictS-WaS clearly contract
With that contract the State had not com
piled. He spoke of the road and the mer
who had taken this piece of dead property
and 50 wonderfully built it up. They hac
been diigent IN pushing the work he
took a different view from Mr.. Leazar a:
to the prosperity of the State, for he be
lleved that it was on the high road to pros
perity. All the great roads in the Stat
had really been built by the State. The,
We're building up the State, and the IN
crease III the value of taxable prOpert.
which they cause is enormous. If thi
We're new bill appropriating conv cts h
would oppose it, hut it was simply bli
to maintain the States faith towards thi
great enterprise. The obligation is sol
emn one with which the State is in homo
bound to comply.